Couple banned from looking at neighbours house have charges dropped | UK News [Video]

A couple banned from looking into their neighbour’s home are ‘ecstatic’ after charges of harassment against them were finally dropped.

Nigel and Sheila Jacklin have been embroiled in a bitter 11 year row with their neighbour sparked by ‘noisy’ building work.

The spat in the town of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, saw the couple legally barred from looking into the home of neighbour Dr Stephane Duckett and his partner.

Earlier this year, the couple were accused of ‘chanting, staring and sticking their fingers up’ at their neighbour and his partner from a nearby beach.

The pair were charged with harassment- but claimed the chanting and finger-pointing were part of Sheila’s Hindu prayers routine.

Nigel, 62, was also charged with assaulting a female friend of their neighbours during a separate row outside his £600k home.

However, all charges against the couple were finally dropped yesterday following an appearance at Brighton Magistrates’ Court.

The ruling ended a long dispute between the two which started when the couple first complained about building work …